Members of the lower house of the French parliament unanimously voted to abolish a series of royal edicts known as the "Code noir" or Black Code. The bill stops short of some lawmakers' demands like possible reparations.

Un vote « symbolique » avant l’ouverture du sensible dossier des réparations ? L’Assemblée nationale a unanimement approuvé jeudi l’abrogation du « Code noir » et l’ensemble des…

French lawmakers in the lower house of parliament on Thursday adopted a bill to repeal a 17th-century law that governed enslaved people across France’s colonies, in a symbolic and…